Eisa Davis & Jillian Walker

Name: Eisa Davis & Jillian Walker
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Two Conversations

Eisa Davis, Jillian Walker

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53rd State Press
29 January 2026

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Plays & playscripts; Black & Asian studies

In September 2021, playwright/performers Eisa Davis and Jillian Walker met to discuss Walker's performance ritual,SKiNFoLK: An American Show(forthcoming from 53rd State Press in March 2022). In January 2022, they met again to discuss Davis's installation performance pieceThe Essentialisn't(forthcoming from 53rd State Press in 2023). In these twin interviews about theuncanny ways their works mirror each other, Davis and Walker take up questions of archive, memory, generational trauma, survivor's guilt, and the conundrum of performance given the commodification and consumption of Black women'sjoy and pain. How to acknowledge, process, and heal the hurt that is felt? How to perform without being captured by others' ideas of what it means to be oneself?

By: Eisa Davis, Jillian Walker
Imprint: 53rd State Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 114mm,
ISBN: 9781737025542
ISBN 10: 173702554X
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 29 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eisa Davis is a writer, composer, and performer. A recipient of a USA Artists Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, an AUDELCO, an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Performance, and the Herb Alpert Award in Theater, Eisa was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play Bulrusher. Along with her thirteen full-length stageworks, she has written for television, recorded two albums of original music, Something Else and Tinctures. An alumnus of New Dramatists, Eisa has received residencies, awards, and fellowships from Sundance Theater Lab, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Helen Merrill Foundation, the Van Lier and Mellon Foundations, and Cave Canem. Eisa lives in Brooklyn, NY. Jillian Walker. Jillian is a 2020 Lilly Award recipient and seeks to inspire the culture ever-more toward love and liberation in her time-bending in(ter)dependent publication, The Free List. Jillian currently lives, works, and heals in New York.

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Eisa Davis & Jillian Walker

Two Conversations